Non-refillable bottle.



Patented Mar. 20, |900.

J. GOODMAN.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Application med Dec. 1, 1899 (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES v PATENT OEEICEe JOSEPH GOODMAN, OF NEW' HAVEN, OONNECT'ICT.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,804, dated March 20, 1900.

Appiicaaou and December 1, 1899. sean No. 788,808. or@ man.)

To @ZZ whom it 191mg/ concern.- l

Be itk'nown that I, JOSEPH GOODMAN, a citizien ot'y the United States, and a resident of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the .following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved non-iellable bottle which is simple and durable in construct-ion, cheap to manufacture, and arranged to prevent refilling of the bottle after the same has once been emptied of its contents.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, aswill be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a sectional side elevation of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same in a tilted position, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the valve-cage.

The bottle A, on which the improvement is applied, is provided with a short neck B, on which is fixed, cemented or otherwise secured, a neck extension C, formed in its upper portion with an apertured horizontal partition D, dividing the neck extension into a lower or valve compartment and into an upper compartment' adapted to receive a cork or stopper E for normally closing the bottle.

In the lower compartment of theneck extension O is arranged a valve-cage F, adapted to contain a ball-valve G and a lockingball H for locking the ball-valve G in place when the bottle is in an upright position, as

shown in Fig. l. The cage F is provided at its bottom with an outwardly-extending annular flange F', seated in an annular recess B', formed on'the top of the neck B and surrounding the outlet-passage of said neck, and said flange F is engaged on its top by an inwardly-extending annular flange O', formed on the lower portion of the neck extension C to securely lock the cage F in position within the neck extension C and at the upper end of the neck B.

The ball-valve G is adapted to be seated on a seat B2 for closing the ne'ck B, and said ballvalve is free to move in the lower cylindrical apertured ortion F2 of the cage at the time the bottle is held in a tilted position to allow the ball-valve G to move O its seat B2,

as indicated in Fig. 2.K From the cylindrical portion F2 of the cage F extends a hollow cone F3, terminating at its top in a battle-plate F4, arranged immediately below the apertured part D, the outer edges of the baffle-plate eX- tending bey ond the inner wall of the opening in the partition D, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The base of the cone F3 is somewhat less in diameter than the diameter of the top of the cylindrical portion F2 of the cage to form at the inside shoulders for the ball H to abut against at the time the ball-valve G is on its seat, so as to lock said ball-valve in position on its seat during the time the bottle is in an upright position, as shown in Fig. l. When the cork or stopper E is removed and the bottle is tilted, then the locking-ball H is free to drop into the hollow cone F3, thereby unlocking or releasing the ball-valve G, so that the lattermoves outward in the cylindrical p0rtion F2 and seats in the cone F3 of the cage, as shown in Fig. 2.' When this takes place, the contents of the bott-le A can readily flow through the now uncovered seat B2 to the cylindrical portion F2 of the cage and through the side openings thereof into the lower compartment of the neck extension, to then low around the battle-plate F4 and through the aperture in the partition D, to linally reach the upper compartment of the neck extension, and then pass to the glass or other vessel into which the contents of the bottle are to be poured.

When the bot-tle A is moved from its tilted l position back into an upright position, as

kshown in Fig. l, then the ball-valve G drops ICO The arrangement of the apertured partition D and the battle-plate F4, immediately below said partition, prevents introducing a wire or other flexible device to reach the ballvalve G and hold the same oft its seat while attempting to refill the bottle. It is evident that such a wire when introduced is deflected sidewise by the baffle-plate and is not likely to reach the ball-valve and hold the latter o its seat while the bottle A is in an upright position.

The ballvalve G is to be made sufficiently light to float in liquid and, if of glass, is made hollow for the purpose, so that the bottle cannot be lilled with a spurious' liquid under a vacuum. Vvhen the bottle is placed in a horizontal position, the locking-ball I-I rolls down the inclined wall of the cone F3 and upon the ball-valve G, causing the latter to iind its seat.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A non-reiillable bottle, comprisinga bottle whose neck is formed on its upper edge with an annular recess surrounding the outletpassage, a valve-cage carrying a valve and provided at its bottom with an outwardlyextending annular iiange seated in said recess and a neck extension fitted upon and secured to said neck and formed with an inwardly-extending annular flange engaging thevtop of the flange at the bottom of the cage, whereby to hold the cage in place, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A non-refillable bottle, comprising a bottle having a short neck and an extension of said neck secured thereto and provided with an inwardly-extending ilange, a valve-cage having at its bottom an outwardly-extending annular iiange on which the flange of the extension rests whereby to hold the cage in place, said cage being further provided with an apertured cylindrical portion above its liange, a hollow cone thereabove having closed sides and Whose base forms an annular shoulder Whereit joins the top of the cylindrical portion, and a solid top closing the top of said hollow cone and forminga baille plate, a ball-Valve having movement within lthe cylindrical portion of the cage, and of such a diameter that it will lit on the said annular shoulder when the bottle is inverted, and a locking-ball in said cage above the ballvalve and of a diameter approximately equal to the distance between said annular shoulder and the ball-valve in closed position, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two su bseribing witnesses.

JOSEPH GOODMAN.

Witnesses:

HOWARD C. WEBB,

G. S. WATSON. 

